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Your flagship, <span class="mu-i">Longest Haul</span>, is the rearmost of the task force’s three Lucrehulk battlecarriers, and is positioned to the portside of the <span class="mu-i">Bountiful</span>, the battlecarrier bearing the invasion forces for the three Kesamere systems. <span class="mu-i">Longest Haul</span> itself is underloaded, carrying only a token force of B1 and B2 battle droids meant for a hypothetical invasion of Shusugaunt, a backwater world that’s been under Republic interdict for centuries. You believe that it’s more likely that the squat namesake species of the world will take up arms for the Confederacy, should its forces present themselves as liberators. The third Lucrehulk, <span class="mu-i">Glit Cauldron</span>, carries the largest invasion force of the three, as Anx Minor, despite its name, is the world on which the Anx Space campaign hinges.
Despite Gravlax Med being the home of the Anx species as well as the seat of the Raioballo sector’s senator, it sits at the dead end of its own hyperlane, and shares its token defense force with the rest of its subsector. Anx Minor is the link between Gravlax Med, the three Kesmeres, and the Galaxy at large; by seizing the primary Anx colony, the only possible threat within the Separatist bulwark of the New Territories will be snuffed out.
Shortly after the initial ion barrage, <span class="mu-i">Bountiful</span> opens fire above the plane of <span class="mu-i">Glit Cauldron</span>, along with the third battlecarrier’s escorts filling the space around the polar SpaceGun with plasma, though most of the shots go wide into the void or land glancing blows on the station’s own escorts.
The equatorial Golans are quicker to react than the station above the north pole, and, along with their escorts and patrolling starfighters, rip into the Hardcell screen along the formation’s port side, destroying the small escort in a fireball visible from your Lucrehulk’s bridge.
Return fire from your wing of the Separatist fleet quickly destroys both a Carrack and Dreadnaught flanking the northerly of the geostationary SpaceGuns, even as another Dreadnaught is able to concentrate its fire into another Hardcell, destroying it. The enemy fighters quickly run into swarms of Vulture droids launched from <span class="mu-i">Longest Haul</span> as well as its escorting Recusants, filling the space between the fleets with streaks of plasma and balls of flames.
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